Steps to Prosperity

The other day, after Tarawih prayer, I met an old friend..someone whom I met the first time in my first class in my university life. I see him from time to time, and usually chat with him. Things happens gradually and I just realized the difference in our conversations... Before, we used to talk about studies, assignments, lecturers, internship, holidays and things around that. However, our last conversation was about work, being independent, moving out, searching for the future partner....I guess have grown up even before we knew it. He told that a friend said to him, he is already a very good person, no need to wait for a very good person and don't be picky. Just go for a normal person. And that concept changed his mind, as well as it changed mine before... Maybe I should lower "my standards" a bit. There is no such thing as the perfect women. As I am a guardian, I wished for a person who is a guardian too. As a black-belt martial artist, I wished for a bl

My name is Cassie, I am 23 years old. I graduated as a qualified nurse this year and was given my first position as a home nurse. My patient was an English gentleman in his early 80s who suffered from Alzheimer’s. In the first meeting, the patient was given his record and from it I could see that he was a convert to the religion of Islam, therefore he was a Muslim. I knew from this that I would need to take into account some modes of treatment that may go against his faith, and therefore try to adapt my care to meet his needs. I brought in some ‘halal’ meat to cook for him and ensured that there was no pork or alcohol in the premises as I did some research which showed that these were forbidden in Islam. My patient was in a very advanced stage of his condition so a lot of my colleagues could not understand why I was going through so much effort for him. But I understood that a person who commits to a faith deserves that commitment to be respected, even if they are not